“Here’s Johnny!”
The Stanley Hotel, made famous by the Jack Nicholson thriller, “The Shining,” and by the vaporous guests before him, has been included in Thrillist.com’s list of The Coolest Hotel in every state and Washington, D.C.
Here’s what Thrillist said: “Unless your name happens to be Arthur Fonzarelli (in which case, that’s crazy!), it’s hard to define the word ‘cool.’ And even harder to apply the label to hotels, when cool could mean historic, or trendy, or that the place is actually a decommissioned Coast Guard helicopter with a full-service bar … in your room!
“But since we’re not above doing hard work, we tried to figure out just how each state would define cool, and then applied that spirit to their hotels. In the end, we came up with what we think is each state’s coolest, most emblematic hotel. Or we were wildly off. You decide.
“Colorado’s got plenty of luxurious mountain resorts, but there’s only one so awesome it inspired Stephen King to write 200,000 words about it. This spot (named for the same guy who founded Stanley Steamer) is the hotel from ‘The Shining’, and while you might not run into a bartender who tells you to kill your family, there are enough rumored ghost stories in this place to make it a bonafide haunted landmark.”
See the rest of the picks at www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/the-coolest-hotel-in-every-state-and-dc.
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